Dear Sir, We got two Sun Ultra10 .Say Sun1 and Sun2 The new Sun Ultra10(sun1) was working properly we wanted to put the whole software of the old Sun10(sun1) on the new Sun10(sun2), we did the following :- 1-we put a Tape on a remote machine (in the same network) and we backed up the files of the old Sun10 using the command #cd / # find . –depth –print |cpio –ocv |grep –v “/proc” | compress | rsh “dd of=/dev/rStp0” This worked properly and the whole file system is backed up on the Tape. 2-After that we tried to restore the files on the tape on the new SUN10(sun2) using this command # rsh “dd if=/devrStp0 | uncompress “ |cpio –icvud This began to restore some of the files and then stopped at the file: /usr/share/lib/termcap and we got this following error:- Cpio: Bad Magic number /header 1 errors terminated 3-Then we tried the last command with option (-k ) for cpio which skips the header problem: # rsh “dd if=/dev/Stp0 |uncompress “ |cpio –icvudk This restored the files completely. When we started the new Sun10 and login as omcadmin, it is ok But, when we used this command: # startx We got the following Error message: sunM64 Probe: can not map frame buffer memory Fatal server error Initoutput: Add Screen failed for /dev/fb /usr/openwin/bin/xinit :server error we suspected an error in the video card and tried to install the Patch for the video card PGX24 from the CDROM which was supplied with the new SUN10. We started to install the package 103792-18 by giving the command (After becoming SU): # ./installpatch . checking installed packages Patch number 103792-18 is superceded by the already applied 10379-19 But it doesn't solve the problem. My question are: 1)What's your opinion about my end error that i can't run xwindow (startx doesn't work).what should i do with this problem? 2)How can we backup and restore the whole HD from one Sun10 to another sun10? Best Regards remy

I would advise you to install OS from the scratch on your new system, make a backup of only needed filesystems on the old sun (e.g. /opt, /usr/local etc) and restore only those. Good luck!

You must make restore operation on SINGLE USER MODE. ok > boot cdrom -s Then, # ....